Glass Catfish And Community Tank

[zain611]

Are glass catfish alright with passive community fish like neons, corys, plecs and shrimps as i was watching a documentary and saw a butterfly fish and when i went on the fish website to see its information i saw a glass cat and was thinking if they can be great to get for my next tank

 

[phantomlink]

I dunno about shrimp but I have my glass catfish ( thailand ones, darker with lines instead of almost pure white ) with neons, corys, harlequins, plecos, gourami etc and they're fine. They are very sensitive to water though and a small spike in ammonia killed off some of the ones I had

 

[zain611]

Thats a quick reply also i luckily saw them at a LFS which i go occasionally due to its location and they have them there also will keep in mind to add them in a strong mature tank before i introduce them

 

[zain611]

Can they eat flakes

 

[phantomlink]

I've fed them flakes, shrimp pellets, algae wafers, bloodworms etc but I've never directly fed them they always ate whatever the faster fish didn't catch

 

[nez2768]

my 2 glass cats are fine in the community tank with neons etc.

 

[zain611]

Thanks guy/girls i may start to think that i may get these fish for my next tank and me and my dads suggestion of fish are community fish so it looks like they will be okay also flake food is the only commen food i give my fish so it looks like they can have that

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Glass Catfish should not be kept in small schools, they are known to pine away and starve to death. Like my African miniture "Debauwi Catfish" (Pareutropius mandevillei), if you are going to get them, buy 15+ and place them in a suitably sized sized tank with suitably mild manored/feeding tankmates (I started with 25 and now have 20 in a 48"x17"x22").

"Glass Catfish" is a horribly ambiguous common name, usually but not exclusively associated with[background=rgb(255, 255, 255)]Kryptopterus[/background]minor and K.[background=rgb(255, 255, 255)]bicirrhis, the former is a mild ~6cm mannered model citizen while the latter reaches ~15cm and is an opportunistic piscivore.[/background]

 

[zain611]

Can you give more info on that like pining away

 

[fluttermoth]

'Pining away' means, if you don't have enough of them, they don't feel secure and stop eating. They don't usually live very long and succumb to stress related diseases

They're a lovely fish and do well in the right set up, but it does need to be right.

Mine do great (I have nine and will be getting another three; I would say nine is the absolute bare minimum number you should think of keeping) in a shady, well planted 48"x15"x18" with a lot of bogwood alongside large shoals of green neons and marbled hatchets (and a BN).

They mostly like to lurk under their favourite root, but there's normally one or two having a wander around the tank. You could possibly add a peaceful dwarf cichlid, like Bolivian rams or apistogrammas to a set up along those lines, but nothing more aggressive than that.

Alternatively, you could go for a more Asian set up, with harelquins and dwarf, honey or even sparkling gouramis.

 

[Mikey1]

Can you give more info on that like pining away

they will go into a corner and sit there and stay there till they die

 

[zain611]

It looks like they are the shiest species of fish and will keep in mind fluttermoth to get about 8/9 of them so they feel secure like neons and shoaling fish but have to make sure they have enough in that specific LFS that have them